Strawberry cookies with cream frosting
Strawberry cookies are a great way to introduce new flavors to your baking! The strawberry flavor in the dough & the pink red frosting will get you hooked!
Equipment
- flat bottom glass
Ingredients
For the cookies
- 2 sticks Butter softened
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
- 1 Egg
- 3 cups Flour
- 1 tbsp Baking Powder
- 1 tbsp Strawberry Puree
- Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel
For the frosting
- 4 tbsp Butter softened
- 4 oz Cream Cheese
- 4 cups Powdered Sugar
- Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel
- Red Food Coloring Gel
- fresh strawberries to decorate
Instructions
- In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, add butter, sugar, vanilla and egg, and blend until light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, add the flour and baking powder, and stir well to blend. Add the flour a little at a time and mix on low to blend, until all the flour is added. Remove the whisk attachment, and use the paddle. Add the strawberry puree and several drops of the Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel, until the desired shade of bright pink is achieved. Continue to blend the cookie dough until it's completely blended and a smooth ball starts to form. Scrape down the mixing bowl as needed.
- Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper, and roll the cookie dough into small balls, about 1 inch balls, and place the balls on the parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes, or just until the cookies start to turn a light golden brown around the edges.
- About half way through baking the cookies, check the oven, and the cookies may have started to crack a little. Take a flat bottom glass, dip it in sugar before lightly applying to each cookie - smash the cookies very gently, and slightly, making them a little flatter, and spread out a little more. This will give the cookies the crinkle look. When the cookies are done, remove from the oven to a wire rack to cool completely.
- While cookies are cooling, make the frosting. In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, add the softened butter and cream cheese and blend to combine. Add the powdered sugar a little at a time, blending after each addition, until the frosting is smooth and fluffy. Divide the Frosting evenly into two bowls.
- In one bowl, add a few drops of the Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel, and stir to blend until the frosting is bright pink. If the frosting thinned a bit add a tablespoon of powdered sugar, and stir to blend.
- In the other bowl, add a few drops of the Red Food Coloring Gel, and stir to blend. If the Frosting thinned a little, add a Tablespoon of Powdered Sugar, and stir well to blend.
- Using plastic wrap, tear off a piece about 10 inches wide, and place the frosting length-wise in the middle of the plastic wrap; it will look like two long ribbons of frosting. Then, roll the plastic wrap around the Frosting, making sure to keep it long, or length-wise like a long ribbon. Snip the end off of the plastic wrap, on one end only, and place it in a pastry bag with the large Star Tip. Pipe the frosting onto the cookies, using a swirl, and bring it up to a point. Place a strawberry on the top of each cookie. Allow the Frosting to set or firm up a bit, about 30 minutes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 184kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 2gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 22mgSodium: 96mgPotassium: 49mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 220IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 32mgIron: 1mg
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